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September blowe soft, Till fruite be in loft. Forgotten, month past, Doe now at the last.[1] 1[2] At Mihelmas lightly new fermer comes in, new husbandrie forceth him new to begin: Old fermer, still taking the time to him giuen, makes August to last vntill Mihelmas euen.[E70] 2 New fermer may enter (as champions say) on all that is fallow, at Lent ladie day: In woodland, old fermer to that will not yeeld, for loosing of pasture, and feede of his feeld.[E71] Ferme take or giue over. 3 Prouide against Mihelmas,[3] bargaine to make, for ferme to giue ouer, to keepe or to take: In dooing of either, let wit beare a stroke, for buieng or selling of pig in a poke.[E72] Twelue good properties. 4 Good ferme and well stored, good housing and drie, good corne and good dairie, good market and nie: Good shepheard, good tilman, good Jack and good Gil, makes husband and huswife their cofers[4] to fil. Haue euer a good fence. 5 Let pasture be stored, and fenced about, and tillage set forward, as needeth without: Before ye doe open your purse to begin, with anything dooing for fancie within. Best cattle most profit. 6 No storing of pasture with baggedglie tit, with ragged,[5] with aged, and euil athit:[6] Let carren and barren be shifted awaie, for best is the best, whatsoeuer ye paie. Strong and light. 7 Horse, Oxen, plough, tumbrel, cart, waggon, & waine, the lighter and stronger, the greater thy gaine. The soile and the seede, with the sheafe and the purse, the lighter in substance, for profite the wurse. Hate borowing. 8 To borow to daie and to-morrow to mis, for lender and borower, noiance it is: Then haue of thine owne, without lending vnspilt, what followeth needfull, here learne if thou wilt.[7]